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Below is a one-minute video of SEE 2016 team’s demonstration. It was edited by the new SEE Operations team at OrangeTech College. SEE is a partnering of academia, industry and NASA committed to “championing, challenging and creating collegiate-level simulation education” to strengthen distributed simulation workforce development. ds.tools is proud to…

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For a second year, ds.tools is a proud partner of the Simulation Exploration Experience (SEE), a NASA-sponsored event, taking place on April 5, 2017. The SEE is a geographically distributed inter-university where teams work in conjunction with one another to design, develop, test, and execute a simulated lunar mission. Participating teams…

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We are proud to announce coreDS™ for X-Plane is now compatible with the newly released version of X-Plane 11. The new version is now available, compatible with both X-Plane 10 and the newly released X-Plane 11. Click here to request a trial.

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We are pleased to announce the availability of coreDSTM for FMI v1.5 This new version allows more control over the FMU’s behaviours. More streamlined UI FMU can now be used in both input and output mapping — meaning you can now receive information from your federation into your FMU FMU’s…

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After a great summer, filled with a lot of work, we are back with new ideas… stay tuned for a new product announcement in November! For those still waiting for coreDS™ for Unreal, the wait is almost over. Development has been slowed down a bit because we decided to add…

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Did you know coreDS™ can be used to connect two different RTI/Standard together? A couple of lines of code is all you need and you get your own network translator! The following example shows how to create a bridge between two connections. In this case we are exchanging data between a HLA 1.3 federation (using…

Did you know you can use LUA to alter incoming or outgoing data? coreDS™ (and all related products) uses LUA as its main scripting engine. LUA is fast and powerful. All that information is available through two static variables that hold information on the current dataset to which the script is assigned…

We are pleased to announce the availability of our latest product: coreDS™ for FMI. The coreDS™ for FMI (Functional Mock-up Interface) is an application that turns FMUs (Functional Mock-up Unit) into a full-featured HLA federates and/or DIS simulation. The good news is you don’t need to be a programmer or a HLA Expert. No…

Here is the result of the Serious Gaming Integration Initiative 2016!!! Fact is, the selected software is not a software per se, more of an Engine. A lot of software development in the Serious Gaming area is done using the Unreal Engine and we are pleased to announce that over the…